Hometown Heroes: American Authors

A

Becky Albertalli

Louisa May Alcott

Sherwood Anderson

B

Charles Brockden Brown

C

James Fenimore Cooper

Michael Crichton

Christopher Paul Curtis

D

Clarence Darrow

Emily Dickinson

John Dos Passos

Frederick Douglass

Theodore Dreiser

E

Ralph Waldo Emerson

F

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Benjamin Franklin

G

H

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

Robert E. Howard

William Dean Howells

Langston Hughes

I

Washington Irving

J

Shirley Jackson

Thomas Jefferson

Sarah Orne Jewett

K

Martin Luther King, Jr.

L

Louis L’Amour

Abraham Lincoln

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

M

Cormac McCarthy

Carson McCullers

Herman Melville

Margaret Mitchell

N

O

Flannery O’Connor

Eugene O’Neill

P

Edgar Allan Poe

Katherine Anne Porter

Q

R

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

S

Shel Silverstein

Wallace Stevens

Harriet Beecher Stowe

T

Booth Tarkington

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

John Kennedy Toole

U

V

W

David Foster Wallace

Robert Penn Warren

John Greenleaf Whittier

Thornton Wilder

Tennessee Williams

William Carlos Williams

X

Y

Z

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Ayn Rand

Laura Ingalls Wilder

John Berendt

Fannie Flagg

Lowis Lowry